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Opera is a great medium for exploring the courage of acting for freedom and the personal cost of heroic resistance. There is something built into the art form that deepens our view of even the most ...

OBERLIN, Ohio -- Friday night at Christ Temple Apostolic Church in Oberlin, something extraordinary happened. The occasion was the first of a series of performances by Oberlin Opera Theater, in ...

As the first ever composer-in-residence for the South Shore Conservatory’s Transform initiative, Dr. Nkeiru Okoye said she wants to provide a role model for young African-American girls and Black ...

Composer Nkeiru Okoye knows people see her as an activist, or a champion of social justice in the music world. On the cover of a recent coloring book of Black composers released by the Rachel Barton ...

South Shore Conservatory recently announced Nkeiru Okoye as the first composer-in-residence for its new SSC Transform initiative, which uses music education as a vehicle to promote social awareness ...

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Detroit – The Detroit Symphony Orchestra plans to premiere a work that commemorates two historic, razed black neighborhoods in the city. The ensemble is scheduled to perform “Black Bottom,” a ...

St. Paul Hmong-American author Kao Kalia Yang’s award-winning book “The Song Poet” is going to be an opera. Minnesota Opera announced Monday that it has commissioned “The Song Poet” for Project Opera, ...